UFC women’s bantamweight Raquel Pennington is gearing up for the biggest match of her career. With that in mind, the time has come to take a look back at one of the fighter’s most intense match ups.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is only days away from hosting the highly anticipated fight card of UFC 224 for fight fans worldwide. The event goes down this Saturday, May 12, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Featured in the night’s live pay-per-view main event, UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes will be looking to defend her title once more. For the exciting match up, Nunes will be going toe-to-toe with Raquel Pennington in a battle for division supremacy.
In her climb up the UFC rankings in hopes of reaching a title shot, Penninton threw down with Ashlee Evans-Smith back at UFC 181. In the fight, Pennington earned a swift first round submission victory over her opponent after putting on a bloody war for the local crowd.
Check it out within the video below: